Word: mountains
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...Washington had succeeded in an international campaign to close down Libya's chemical-weapons plant at Rabta. Now Muammar Gaddafi was building a second nerve-gas plant near the town of Tarhunah just like the one at Rabta. Only this time it was carved into the side of a mountain where no spy-satellite eyes could see the factory inside and no American jets could destroy...
...technicians for big construction projects. The agency was able to develop a network of informants among the foreign workers, and one of them now reported that Gaddafi had big plans for the Rabta hardware. Much of it would eventually be moved to a new chemical-weapons plant inside a mountain near Tarhunah. CIA spy satellites immediately began pointing their cameras at the mountain. Secret cables went out to CIA stations worldwide ordering case officers to collect intelligence from foreign firms Gaddafi might have enlisted for the project...
...plant so it would be virtually impregnable. CIA clandestine officers suspected that he had got hold of blueprints the former Soviet Union used to build its large network of underground bomb shelters during the cold war. Only a direct hit by a nuclear warhead on top of the mountain could take out the plant. Sneaking a conventional bomb through the front door would be impossible, and a precision-guided projectile fired from an attack jet or a cruise missile could never be programmed to twist and turn its way into the mountain's entrance and destroy the equipment inside...
While Steve Forbes, who dropped out last week, may have spent a mountain of money, he doesn't show that bad a return, considering the votes he won in the G.O.P. primaries and caucuses through March 12. Others have worse ratios...
...altitudes of about 10,000 ft. and higher, mountain climbers run the risk of developing a serious condition in which their lungs fill with water. Now scientists in Switzerland report that inhaling an extremely diluted dose of nitric oxide gas--about the amount present in Los Angeles smog--can help treat the problem...